tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70639092010-02-16T16:22:29.935-05:00Projects by Simon Grennan & Christopher SperandioKartoon Kingsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063909.post-10562773185323762602010-02-16T16:21:00.000-05:002010-02-16T16:22:30.014-05:00

As part of 'Siege and Storm' a major show at Discovery Centre Newcastle, opening June, Grennan & Sperandio's comic of the same name focuses on the English Civil War siege of Newcastle in 1644. Check out news of the show and comic later in the year.

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Grennan & Sperandio's Leverhulme Trust Artist's Residency at Chester's Grosvenor Museum reaches its half-way mark with the installation of the fourth new piece 'In Grosvenor Park', bringing together a nineteenth century vitrine with home-made wool flowers, from the Museum's social history collection, and soft toys bought at Chester markets.

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Launching the project 'U-10 From here to the imaginary and back' on the Berlin U-Bahn on 15 October, this portrait is one of ten appearing on billboards, in the underground's own Plus magazine and via in-carriage video until the middle of next year. Grennan & Sperandio have collaborated with people who work on the city's underground network at night. If you're in Berlin on Thursday, 15 October,

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The third of seven pieces made in response to the social history collection at Chester's Grosvenor Park Museum appeared on 14 August, as part of Grennan & Sperandio's year-long Leverhulme Trust Artists Residency. 'Curzon Park North' is named for the eponymous street - one of the most desirable addresses in Chester since the 1850s. Overlooking the river and racecourse, it's been on display for

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The Sidings, the second of seven new works made as part of the Leverhule Artists Residency at The Grosvenor Museum, Chester, is on show until 14 August 2009. Pairing a 100-year old plushy elephant from the social history collection with a cake parent, baked by famous Chester bakers P&A Davies, the piece is named for a Chester location redolent of past homes and childhoods. Catch Grennan

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The new book The Wisdom of Barrhead and Neilston launches in Barrhead, Glasgow on 14 June. Comprising 365 pieces of wisdom compiled in response to the question What's the most important lesson life has taught you?, the book has been given away to all of the 7500 households in Barrhead and Neilston as a gift. The Wisdom of Barrhead and Neiston' completes a suite of three books given away in

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The new book Bloomfield Talks launches on 09 May. The book has been developed over a year by people with connections to the Bloomfield, Foxhall, Revoe and near South Shore areas of Blackpool, the famous "people's playground" in the north west of England. 4,500 copies of the book have been delivered as a gift to every household in Bloomfield. See www.bloomfieldtalks.org

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Eight months in preparation, The Wisdom of Caia Park launches on 26 April. A collection of a year's-worth of personal wisdom compiled by people in this famous area of Wrexham, North Wales, five thousand books have been delivered to every Caia household as a gift.

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Grennan & Sperandio installed the first of seven new pieces, titled Over Caldy Brook, at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, UK, on 08 April, marking the start of their Leverhulm Trust Artists Residency working with the Museum's social history collection. More at the Chester Chronicle.

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A series of six new Grennan & Sperandio paintings titled 'Specific Gravity' go on show in Manchester at two venues between January and March. The artists represented locations around the city that are reported as sites of accumulated social activism. See www.one-and-all.org

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Here's a new Kartoon Kings web comic for the CREATIVE TIME comic project entitled CREATIVE TIME COMICS. This new comics project debuts this month. It's currently a web project, and will eventually be collected into a book. Subscribe to the CREATIVE TIME COMICS rss feed here.

Kartoon Kingsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063909.post-35313175845971495672008-11-06T15:16:00.003-05:002008-11-06T15:33:13.666-05:00

Installation views of Grennan & Sperandio's Becoming Modern at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff from 29 September to 16 November 2008.

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Grennan & Sperandio's Becoming Modern at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff from 29 September to 16 November 2008. Read about the exhibition here.

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A tea party in the heart of Blackpool, England's favourite seaside resort, launched the new online archive 'Bloomfield Talks' on Saturday 11 October. The archive showcases visual, audio and written material collected by a team of volunteers, focusing on the deep and recent history of the Bloomfield, Revoe, Foxhall and near South Shore areas of the town. The edited Bloomfield Talks archive will

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As part of the preparations for the London Olympiad 2012, Grennan & Sperandio have been commissioned by London's Camden Borough Council to make a series of ten protraits of Camden people. Asking the simple question "What's your proudest personal achievement?" the ten portraits provide a glimpse of the heart of London and propose that we are all Olympians, every day. See them all soon at

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A blast from the past -- watch the Grennan & Sperandio animated short "The Liquid Pavilion," produced for Channel Four all the way back in 2000.

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Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio present a new painted installation featuring nearly 30 original works by Frederic Remington. For this installation, Grennan and Sperandio have isolated the horse from the 1890 Remington painting "A peril of the Plains." Here the horse has been blown apart, and its cartoon intestines wind around the gallery wall, as a display mechanism for the presentation

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Grennan & Sperandio's South Oxhey Library Book launches on July 19, 2008. The book draws together over one hundred conversations with South Oxhey people about libraries. The South Oxhey Library Book is being given away as a gift to the 800 households in the area. See Green Heart Partnerships for more details.

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Appearing once a week for ten weeks between May and July in the Denbighshire Free Press, a newspaper covering north Wales, the comic strips Little Histories(or Ychydig Hanesion in Welsh) are a series of Grennan & Sperandio portraits made with Denbighshire people, commissioned by Safle.

Kartoon Kingsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7063909.post-27207405876009693752008-04-23T12:13:00.007-04:002008-07-30T18:21:39.429-04:00

Giant Psychic Avatars of Salford opens at The Lowry, UK. Focussing on what Grennan & Sperandio think, for a change, these three massive blow-up figures (12' - 17' high) are complex characters embodying what we feel is the spirit of one of the worlds great industrial, now post-industrial cities. Exhibition runs through end June 2008.

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Rubbing Shoulders, a new Grennan and Sperandio project for FUTURESONIC. The first major art exhibition worldwide on social networking will transform Manchester into the most sociable city on the planet. Featuring newly commissioned artworks in free exhibitions and happenings all over Manchester.

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Christopher Sperandio will talk about the work of Grennan & Sperandio on Thursday, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:30PM in the Film/Video Theater of the Wexner Center. After the talk, Sperandio will sign copies of Kartoon Kings: The Graphic Work of Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio, in the Wexner Store. This talk is cosponsored by The Ohio State's Cartoon Research Library, Department of Comparative

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Commissioned by the Trade and General Workers' Union (Wales), one of the largest UK trade unions, Get It Right! presents five true-life anecdotes about coming to work in Britain. Distributed in an edition of 6,000 from February 2008 through the Union and Trades Union Council networks in Wales.

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Little is left of it save its sublimity, Grennan & Sperandio, oil on canvas, 4'x5', 2008Recently completed are a suite of eleven paintings for the solo exhibition 'Becoming Modern,' a commission by Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales UK.The paintings have been inspired by Gwendoline and Margaret Davies' Italian journey of 1909. The project has been kindly supported by the Davies family. The

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In conjunction with the release of the monograph, Kartoon Kings: The Graphic work of Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio, and while supplies last, collected sets of Kartoon Kings books are now available to serious private collectors and public collections.Although many Kartoon Kings books are still available from various sources, some were published in limited numbers (3,000 or less) and

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